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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:09:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807101509.15833.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215681686.3932.12.camel@johannes.berg>

On Thursday 10 July 2008 11:21:26 Johannes Berg wrote:
> This patch makes mac80211 assign proper sequence numbers to
> QoS-data frames. It also removes the old sequence number code
> because we noticed that only the driver or hardware can assign
> sequence numbers to non-QoS-data and especially management
> frames in a race-free manner because beacons aren't passed
> through mac80211's TX path.
> 
> This patch also adds temporary code to the rt2x00 drivers to
> not break them completely, that code will have to be reworked
> for proper sequence numbers on beacons.
> 
> It also moves sequence number assignment down in the TX path
> so no sequence numbers are assigned to frames that are dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---


>  drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c         |    3 -
>  drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/xmit.c   |    3 -

ACK

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-10  9:21 [PATCH] mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers Johannes Berg
2008-07-10 13:09 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-07-10 13:17 ` Ivo van Doorn

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